In honor of Il Cenacolo’s long standing relationship with the San Francisco Opera, and also because we love a good time, we host the annual Sal Reina Opera Outing every year in the early Fall. This is an old fashioned Italian lunch in the country, to which we invite the stars of the San Francisco Opera as our guests. It all started in 1958, when our revered member had the idea, and we have been doing it ever since.

It’s great fun and the artists get a chance to relax and enjoy our hospitality. Recently, we’ve added operatic entertainment by other professionals we hire for the event. Our guests just enjoy the day.

Performers include:
Erin O’Meally, soprano
Dane Suarez, tenor
Nicholas Dold, piano

Singing Macduff in Macbeth (Verdi): February 14, 16m, 22, 23m

This is West Bay Opera's third production ever of Verdi's Macbeth. The libretto follows the Shakespeare play closely. Though Verdi turned the three witches into an entire women's chorus, he still felt that the witches, as a whole are dramatically on a par with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. A major success upon its premiere in 1847, the opera was revised and translated into French in 1865 for Paris. Paradoxically, it is the revised version, sung in Italian, that has become more widely performed. Verdi was particularly proud of this score, his first opportunity to explore Shakespeare's work, which he greatly admired. After Nabucco's Abigaile, Lady Macbeth is the next big soprano role in the Verdian canon, an intrepid musical exploration of the Shakespearean archetype, a woman whose all-consuming ambition ends in tragedy and madness. Macbeth is a remarkable score, and in addition to the beautiful arias, it includes outstanding ensembles and lots of exciting choral and orchestral music.

Macbeth - Krassen Karagiozov
Lady Macbeth - Christina Major
Macduff - Dane Suarez
Banco - Ben Brady
Malcolm - Jackson Beaman

Conductor - José Luis Moscovich
Director - Ragnar Conde